diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/spider/middleware.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/spider/middleware.py
index 02f986922..799e177df 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/spider/middleware.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/spider/middleware.py
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 Spider middleware manager
 """
 
-
-from twisted.python.failure import Failure
-
 from scrapy import log
 from scrapy.core.exceptions import NotConfigured
 from scrapy.utils.misc import load_class